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Kenzie Lalonde, who has been part of TSN in Canada since 2021, is making history this season as the first woman to be a regular play-by-play voice for a Canadian hockey team and last night, she became the first female to do hockey play-by-play on TSN. Lalonde, who grew up in Ottawa, made her debut Tuesday as the Ottawa Senators played in Toronto against the Maple Leafs and she will handle several other broadcasts throughout the season.
Lalonde posted a picture of her family on the ice with the Ottawa Senators mascot when she was three years old. “If Sparty had whispered to this three-year-old girl that one day she would wake up on a Tuesday morning and call play-by-play for the Ottawa Senators, she wouldn’t have believed him,” she wrote on her X account. “I am incredibly excited to be in the booth tonight for my first Senators game on TSN.”
Lalonde will split the play-by-play for the team this season with Gord Miller and Matt Cullen. Former NHL goalie Jamie McLennan served as the analyst for Lalonde’s first game this season.
Lalonde is not the first woman to call hockey play-by-play for a national network, that distinction belongs to Leah Hextall, who became the first woman in Canada to call a national NHL game with Sportsnet in 2020. She later became the first female play-by-play broadcaster to be a regular part of a national NHL television package when she was hired by ESPN in 2021.
